Meanwhile, One Direction's Niall Horan and Zayn Malik helped the band collectively take three of the top five most retweeted messages.

A tweet from Horan regarding his 20th birthday peaked at 375,000 retweets, while Malik took 344,000 for a picture of fellow bandmate Harry Styles sleeping, on top of a further 336,000 retweets thanking well-wishers following his engagement to Perrie Edwards.

The band rank among the most followed people collectively, holding more than 29 million unique followers around the globe collectively from their individual and joint Twitter accounts.

Fast & Furious actor Paul Walker also racked up 400,000 retweets, when his team took to his official Twitter account to confirm the actor's death on December 1.